Seminar: Analysis of Value Chains from the Mercosur Subregional Input Output Table

This seminar presented the methodology followed to assemble the 2005 Subregional South American Input Output Table (IOT), and the MERCOSUR Subregional IOT, 2005 and 2011 versions, as well as that of each corresponding national IOT. Likewise, ECLAC presented a set of results obtained from the MERCOSUR Subregional IOT, as well as methodological details that allow for the use of the South American and MERCOSUR IOTs as tools for economic analysis. The seminar was held at the Central Bank of Paraguay with the participation of officials of the MERCOSUR Secretariat and various public entiti…

XXVII Meeting of the Special Committee on Transport

The XXVI Meeting of the Special Committee for Transport of the ACS was held on June 14th, 2018 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Meeting was Chaired by Panama, Chair of the Committee for the period 2018-2019 with the presence of the Dra. June Soomer, General Secretary of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) an organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean. The meeting was attended by ambassadors and officials of the embassies of the following countries: Antigua & Barbuda…

First meeting of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

On June 11 and 12, 2018, the first meeting of the Statistical Coordination Group for the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The objective of this meeting is to move forward in the definition of a consensual version of a regional framework of SDG indicators based on the proposal presented by ECLAC at the Ninth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, held in Aguascalientes, Mexico in November 2017. See Note of the meeting…

Regional-Global TiVA Initiatives Workshop

Recent years have seen a significant take-up in international efforts to develop measures of Trade in Value Added, driven by growing demands for better, more comprehensive and more timely data on global value chains, their drivers and impacts. Examples of initiatives include OECD-WTO TiVA, Eurostat’s FIGARO, North American TiVA, APEC TIVA, WIOD, regional IO tables for Latin America coordinated by CEPAL, and many others. Bringing together all these TiVA initiatives, the second Regional-Global TiVA Workshop that took place on 7-8 June in Paris aimed to further develop and operationalise common …

Expert meeting on agricultural insurance and comprehensive risk management in the SICA region

The expert meeting on agricultural insurance and comprehensive risk management in Central America and the Dominican Republic was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on June 5 and 6, 2018. The meeting aimed to analyze the current status of pre-requisites for the development and/or strengthening of traditional and parametric agricultural insurance in the countries; deepen the progress and lessons learned on agricultural insurance products indexed at the national, regional and international levels aimed at micro and small producers; and validate strategic lines for the development and stren…

The role of the entrepreneur in Latin American Integration

The Secretariat of the Andean Community (CAN) in coordination with the Chamber of Commerce of Lima is organizing the International Seminar: "The Role of the Entrepreneur in Latin American Integration" whose final objective is to open a space for entrepreneurs to express their concerns and proposals on regional integration. The event will cover topics such as the improvement of the Free Trade Zone from the business perspective; the facilitation of trade in customs matters; the elimination of non-tariff barriers in intra-CAN trade; and the advances and opportunities in land transport and th…

Committee on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the Thirty-seventh session of ECLAC

Annual Seminar on National Accounts for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2018: Regional Implementation of the 2008 SNA and its relationship with other systems

Organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Lan America and the Caribbean and National Institute of Statistics and Census of Panama (INEC)…

Redatam workshop: Census data analysis and processing for the creation of sociodemographic indicators using Redatam

Emphasis will be made to the processing and analysis of information from population and housing censuses and household surveys with priority in the generation of indicators in the following areas: education vulnerability, estimation on habitat deficit, specification of target groups (third age, adolescents, indigenous population) and their socio-demographic characteristics, migration and UBN estimation. Redatam7 will be used. Date: From May 7th to 11th, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Place: The course will take place at ECLAC headquarters, CELADE-Population Division, Santiago, Chile. The co…

Second Technical Meeting of the International Comparison Program (ICP)

Organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and CARICOM…

Thirty-seventh session of ECLAC

El período de sesiones es la reunión bienal más importante de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). Ofrece un foro que permite analizar temas relevantes para el desarrollo de los países de la región y examinar la marcha de las actividades de la Comisión.…

Seminar-Workshop: Promoting the internationalization of women-led businesses

The seminar-workshop "Promoting the internationalization of women-led businesses", orgnized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), PROMPERU and the Ministry of the Woman and Vulnerable Populations of Peru, included presentations and discussions around the economic autonomy of women and the promotion of businesses led by women and their exports, among other themes. The one day seminar-workshop was designed to support the internationalization of female enterprise through the identification of opportunities and challenges in entering the i…

Launch of the ECLAC/CCJ book "Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law"

Twenty-seventh session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Pursuant to resolution 358(XVI) of 1975, the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) was created as a permanent subsidiary body of the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean to promote development cooperation among Caribbean countries.…

Fifth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable

This year the Caribbean Development Roundtable (CDR) takes a frontal look at four major issues facing the region with a view to identifying workable solutions to address them successfully.…

Workshop for government officials and consultation with civil society on the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Costa Rica Forum on Data Roadmaps for Sustainable Development

The Forum aims to bring together stakeholders across sectors of the country, to discuss and define the way forward for the achievement of the formulation of a roadmap for the generation of data for sustainable development.…

The United Nations Regional Courses in International Law 2018

The deadline for applications has been extended to 22 January 2018. …

Side Event - Regional agreement on access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean – A tool for addressing the Implementation Challenges of the 2030 Agenda

Organized by ECLAC, Governments of Chile and Costa Rica and Access Initiative…

Side Event: “Dialogue on the identification of data sources for SDG indicators in the Caribbean”

Organized by ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean…